Oriens goloides

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Common Dartlet
From Narenderpur near Kolkata, India.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Family: Hesperiidae Genus: Oriens Species: O. goloides
Binomial name
Oriens goloides (Moore, 1881)

Oriens goloides, commonly known as the Common Dartlet, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.

[edit] Description

See glossary for terms used

Upperside dark purple-brown. Male : forewing with a golden yellow oblique discal sinuous band followed by small costal spots before the apex ; base of the costa and cell, and two spots at its end also of the same colour ; hindwing with a medial discal sinuous golden-yellow band, the hairy scales extending to the base also yellow. Cilia golden yellow. Underside with less distinct markings as above: costa and apex of forewing and the hindwing suffused with yellow. Body and legs golden-yellow; palpi and front of thorax beneath saffron-yellow. Female : differs only in the discal band being narrow ; and not having the yellow costal streak.

—E. Y. Watson^[1]

"Nearest allied species is Oriens gola. Differs from it on both sides in the narrower discal band of the forewing, the band being also disconnected from the costal spots; the band of the hindwing is also narrower." (Frederic Moore)

[edit] References